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Artwork has a way of inserting itself into pop culture, mainstream media, and especially sports. While there's an abundance of offerings in the world of art, it's the pieces in which we truly connect with that not only bring the work, but also the artist to life. There's been few...

Everyone keeps asking me for the size they received on MLB.com and at FanFest. How do I get the 11x17 print? Well it's about time that I uploaded them all to my website and to celebrate, all the labor it took to get them uploaded, I wanted to finally make them for sale to you!

So I'm back from Cincinnati and I'm tired! This was my second FanFest with the MLB and I forgot what a surreal experience it is! Cincinnati is a baseball town, and there were fans everywhere! Before I recap some of the nuttiness, I have to thank everyone that came to my booth to see my artwork. Regardless if you bought art, or just came to see the display, I'm thankful that you took the time to see me. I'll never stop being grateful to you!

It's the traditional baseball scene - a father playing catch with his son. I'm not a father, but even I've imagined it.

So how does a father share the sport they love so much with a daughter that he loves more than anything? For fathers that are baseball fans, it's significantly more difficult to bond when you have a little girl.

The Houston Astros have a new Minimalist design for their ballpark! It's of course the Minute Maid Train that crawls along the tracks above the left field wall. Rather then googling pictures of the train, I decided to let Nelson Cruz use his bat to show you where the train is!

May people often asked me to describe my art, but I am not a man of words, so I always struggle to express myself verbally or in written form. It's not surprising. I'm an artist! It's much easier for me to illustrate and draw my feelings then express them with words. So in my constant endeavor to connect art with sports, I've asked several of my fans to express their passion for baseball and will illustrate their love for the game... hence the name.

The next set of minimalist ballpark watches is due to launch and we need your help choosing which designs to release! Vote now and choose which ballpark will be produce in the next release batch. Choose one or all of them, but we will only pick four.

I don't often get a chance to see how people react to my artwork. I get lots of tweets and emails that they love my art, but I rarely get to see it first hand. So earlier this week, Dani msged me on Instagram and asked me to create a ballpark princess piece of Princess Dodgers Tiana for her co-worker Bree as a birthday present. As you know, I do not do commissions, but this request was too good to pass up!

Field of Dreams is one of the greatest baseball movies, period. A friend once told me that everything in life can be explained in baseball and this move encapsulates that ideal. Couple years ago, my father passed away. I wasn't an artist back then, and I never drew or sketch a thing since I was a teenager. So, I can safely say he has never seen any artwork I've ever created.

A couple years ago, I decided that I needed a change. It's not that I didn't garner accolades as a graphic designer and web specialist, but I had that feeling that we all get when we're stuck in a rut. So in 2012 I made a bold decision and decided to uproot myself from Vancouver and move to a different country with nothing but a desire for a new path in life.

Right from the beginning, I knew that if I wanted to create sports art, I would need to get myself up to speed on intellectual property and trademark infringement. I've always taken a 'strategically naive" approach and fearlessly created my designs. I've always tried to approach the leagues and teams in a professional, objective manner and, I've been able to navigate through these muddy waters relatively successfully.

Back when Suzanne Collins release the first Hunger Games book, I was hooked! I blasted through each book as they released, and was super stoked about the movie. The hype in my has subsided quite a bit now, but back then I had to design one of my first minimalist posters! I just watched the Mockingjay last night, and meh. But it made me remember this poster. Go Katniss!

If you aren't following along on my Instagram or Facebook, you're missing my World Series sketches of one of my favorite Disney characters dressed up in Kansas City Royals swag. With the long layover between the end of the Championship Series, and the start of the World Series, I drew a disheartened Rapunzel waiting for the games to start.

The NHL season is around the corner and no doubt I've been busy. As many of you hockey fans have requested, here's the updated 16-bit draft picks with the 2014 addition of the Florida Panther's first overall pick, Aaron Ekblad. Prints are not yet available.

It's been over a month, yes it has! It is hard to capture all the emotions I've felt for those 5 days in Minneapolis, but the best way is to spurt out, "Thank you!!!". Though I'm not a new kid on the block when it comes to graphic design, it's only been a couple months since I really started labelling myself as an 'artist'.

One of the most monumental moment in my (short) art career is my display in Target Field, in Minneapolis. You see, a couple months back, I got a phone call from the stadium interior design reps and asked me if I wouldn't mind if they displayed my minimalist ballpark series in their stadium. Umm, yes!!! Fast forward to opening day, and my many twitter fans in Minnesota started tweeting me photos and congratulations for the unveiling of the display. As any Lego character will say, "Everything is Awesome".

If you follow my instagram account, you'll see that I like to draw disney style pinup art. So when a fitness coach asked me to draw cartoon versions of her clients I jumped at the chance. She never ended up using them, but I had a ton of fun doing it and it was my first illustration contract!

I'm so hyped for tonight's game I had to create this little meme to commemorate the event. I'm such a massive hockey fan, and even massive-er-est-ous Olympics fan. And being a patriotic Canadian, this game hits all my buttons. Some days I wish I just bought a ticket to Sochi, and watched the gold medal game in person.

When I designed Miss604's website, I created a bunch of famous buildings in isometric form as the header banner. As it turns out, they became really really popular and so I make them available as individula prints. For a better closeup, here's all 8 designs.

The long awaited NHL Stadium Series is just around the corner. I made some revisions to my minimalist baseball stadiums series, to honor the outdoor hockey games next week. Yes of course, we all know it never snows in Los Angeles, so don't get your jockstrap in a knot.

An illustration I've been working on at the side of my desk for a couple weeks. I've been enjoying using traditional art using pencil, paper and black ink. It's a little refreshing. As a newly located OCer, I spend a fair amount of time at the beach, and I'm surrounded with surfers all year long. I plan on doing more surfer girls drawing in the future.

Im memory of the Seattle Supersonics, which was my team until they moved to OKC. I did a mashup of Seattle's former basketball team with their current baseball team, the Seattle Mariners. I have a t-shirt available on RedBubble.